Vershawn Ashanti Young

Young received a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Illinois Chicago and a Juris Doctor from the Mitchell Hamline School of Law.{{Cite web |title=Vershawn Young {{!}} English Language and Literature |url=https://uwaterloo.ca/english/profiles/vershawn-young |access-date=2024-09-06 |website=University of Waterloo |language=en}}

Young has taught at the University of Iowa, University of Kentucky and public schools.[https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/thescholarsnetwork/staff-members/vershawn-young/ University of Michigan website, Scholars Network section, Vershawn Ashanti Young][https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Vershawn-Young ResearchGate website, Profile: Vershawn Young] In 2024, he is currently teaching at the University of Waterloo.

Aside from being an educator, he is also a performer and an artist, most notably doing a one-man show tour called Your Average Nigga.[https://uknow.uky.edu/campus-news/performance-survive University of Kentucky website, A Performance to Survive, article by Erin Holaday dated October 20, 2010] Young has written nine books, including Your Average Nigga, in which he discusses how black men have to give up their masculinity and way of speech to sound and act whiter to get an education. In his 2018 book Other People’s English, Young distinguishes between code-switching (dialect used at school versus dialect used at home or with friends) and code-meshing (a combination of both). He also researches masculinity in this book and compares Tyler Perry to former President Barack Obama to see what performances they needed to do to be as successful as they had become.

In 2020, he was the chair of the Conference on College Composition and Communication.[https://cccc.ncte.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/2024-CCCC-Conv-Program-final-3-24.pdf Conference on College Composition and Communication website, 2024 Convention Handbook, page 291 ][https://fountainheadpress.com/discipline/english/yesterdaysliteracy/ Fountainhead Press website, This Ain’t Yesterday’s Literacy]

• {{Cite book |last=Young |first=Vershawn Ashanti |title=Your Average Nigga: Performing Race, Literacy, and Masculinity |publisher=Wayne State University Press |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-814-33576-5}}{{Cite journal |last=Hodge |first=Kristen |date=2008-09-12 |title=Your Average Nigga: Performing Race Literacy and Masculinity by Vershawn Ashanti Young: Detroit: Wayne State University Press (2007), ISBN 978-08143-3248-1, 170 pp., Paperback $19.95 |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10999940802347822 |journal=Souls |language=en |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=304–306 |doi=10.1080/10999940802347822 |issn=1099-9949}}
• {{Cite book |title=Code-Meshing as World English: Pedagogy, Policy, Performance |date=2011 |publisher=National Council of Teachers of English |isbn=978-0-8141-0700-3 |editor-last=Young |editor-first=Vershawn Ashanti |location=Urbana, Ill |editor-last2=Martinez |editor-first2=Aja Y. |editor-last3=}}{{Cite journal |last=Lukes |first=Marguerite |date=December 2012 |title=Code-Meshing as World English: Pedagogy, Policy, Performance , edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Aja Y. Martínez: (Eds.).(2011). Urbana, IL: National Council of Teachers of English, 298 pp |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15235882.2012.731590 |journal=Bilingual Research Journal |language=en |volume=35 |issue=3 |pages=368–370 |doi=10.1080/15235882.2012.731590 |issn=1523-5882 |access-date=2024-03-22 |archive-date=2024-03-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316012531/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15235882.2012.731590 |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite book |title=From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances |date=2011 |publisher=Wayne State University Press |isbn=978-0-8143-3468-3 |editor-last=Young |editor-first=Vershawn Ashanti |series=African American life series |location=Detroit |oclc=657270834 |editor-last2=Tsemo |editor-first2=Bridget Harris}}{{Cite journal |last=Cowin-Mensah |first=Michelle |date=2015 |title=From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle Class Performances ed. by Vershawn Ashanti Young, with Bridget Harris Tsemo |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/576206 |journal=Callaloo |language=en |volume=38 |issue=1 |pages=219–222 |doi=10.1353/cal.2015.0033 |issn=1080-6512 |access-date=2024-09-06 |archive-date=2024-07-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240724184935/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/576206 |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite book |last=Young |first=Vershawn Ashanti |title=Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy |last2=Barrett |first2=Rusty |last3=Young-Rivera |first3=Y'Shanda |last4=Lovejoy |first4=Kim Brian |date=2013 |publisher=Teachers College Press, Columbia University |isbn=978-1-64317-043-5 |location=New York London}}{{Cite journal |last=Haddix |first=Marcelle M. |date=January 2016 |title=Other People's English: Code-Meshing, Code-Switching, and African American Literacy |url=https://ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jaal.494 |journal=Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy |language=en |volume=59 |issue=4 |pages=483–484 |doi=10.1002/jaal.494 |issn=1081-3004}}
• {{Cite book |title=From Uncle Tom's Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on White-Authored Narratives of Black Life |date=2014 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |isbn=978-1-137-44626-8 |editor-last=Oberon Garcia |editor-first=Clare |editor-last2=Young |editor-first2=Vershawn Ashanti |editor-last3=Pimente |editor-first3=Charise}}{{Cite journal |last=Garza |first=Edward Santos |title=Review: Clare Oberon Garcia, Vershawn Ashanti Young, and Charise Pimentel (Eds.). From Uncle Tom’s Cabin to The Help: Critical Perspectives on WhiteAuthored Narratives of Black Life |url=https://reflectionsjournal.net/wp-content/uploads/CopyrightUpdates/Vol17No1/17.1-Review-From-Uncle-Toms-Cabin.pdf |journal=Reflections |volume=17 |issue=1 |pages=206-210}}
• {{Cite book |title=Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication |date=2016 |publisher=The WAC Clearinghouse |isbn=978-1-60732-649-6 |editor-last=Condon |editor-first=Frankie |location=Fort Collins, Colorado |editor-last2=Young |editor-first2=Vershawn Ashanti}}{{Cite journal |last=Tinsley |first=Natasha |date=2017-01-01 |title=Review: Performing Antiracist Pedagogy in Rhetoric, Writing, and Communication edited by Frankie Condon & Vershawn Ashanti Young |url=https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/wcj/vol36/iss2/13 |journal=Writing Center Journal |language=en |volume=36 |issue=2 |doi=10.7771/2832-9414.1835 |issn=2832-9414}}
• {{Cite book |title=Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow |date=2018 |publisher=University of Illinois Press |isbn=978-0-252-05024-4 |editor-last=Godfrey |editor-first=Mollie |editor-last2=Young |editor-first2=Vershawn Ashanti}}{{Cite journal |last=Selisker |first=Scott |date=2019 |title=Review of Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26866086 |journal=African American Review |volume=52 |issue=4 |pages=409–410 |issn=1062-4783}}{{Cite journal |last=Wilson |first=Nia |date=2020 |title=Neo-Passing: Performing Identity After Jim Crow |url=http://liminalities.net/16-3/neo-rev.html |journal=Liminalities |volume=16 |issue=3 |access-date=2024-09-06 |website= |archive-date=2023-04-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230418114519/http://liminalities.net/16-3/neo-rev.html |url-status=live }}{{Cite journal |last=Cary Conger |first=Julie |date=2019-09-01 |title=Neo-Passing: Performing Identity after Jim Crow. Edited by Mollie Godfrey and Vershawn Ashanti Young |url=https://academic.oup.com/melus/article/44/3/212/5550695 |journal=MELUS |language=en |volume=44 |issue=3 |pages=212–215 |doi=10.1093/melus/mlz027 |issn=0163-755X}}
• {{Cite book |title=The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric: The Longue Duree of Black Voices |date=2018 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-0-415-73105-8 |editor-last=Young |editor-first=Vershawn Ashanti |editor-last2=Robinson |editor-first2=Michelle Bachelor}}{{Cite journal |last=Pettus |first=Mudiwa |date=2021-05-01 |title=Review: The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric: The Long Duree of Black Voices , edited by Vershawn Ashanti Young, and Michelle Bachelor Robinson |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/876506 |journal=Rhetorica |language=en |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=237–240 |doi=10.1525/rh.2021.39.2.237 |issn=0734-8584 |access-date=2024-09-06 |archive-date=2024-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903045118/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/876506 |url-status=live }}{{Cite journal |last=Pettus |first=Mudiwa |date=March 2021 |title=The Routledge Reader of African American Rhetoric: The Long Durée of Black Voices ed. by Vershawn Ashanti Young and Michelle Bachelor Robinson |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/876506 |journal=Rhetorica |language=en |volume=39 |issue=2 |pages=237–240 |doi=10.1353/rht.2021.0031 |issn=1533-8541 |access-date=2024-09-06 |archive-date=2024-09-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240903045118/https://muse.jhu.edu/article/876506 |url-status=live }}
• {{Cite book |title=This Ain’t Yesterday’s Literacy: Culture and Education After George Floyd |date=2020 |publisher=Fountainhead Press |isbn=978-1-644-85441-9 |editor-last=Young |editor-first=Vershawn Ashanti}}

[https://theconversation.com/profiles/vershawn-ashanti-young-533657/articles List of Young's articles published on The Conversation website]

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